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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Growing Up: Here and There, D-Day and All That, and Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the Japanese people feel about the Japanese war veterans?
(a) Resentful.
(b) Mistrustful.
(c) Grateful.
(d) Worshipful.

2. Why does Richard Prendergast say the pillboxes were of no use to the infantrymen?
(a) They faced the wrong way.
(b) The soldiers had to keep marching past them.
(c) They were hiding places for German infantrymen.
(d) They had all been blasted to pieces.

3. Which college students were drafted earliest, according to Akira Miuri?
(a) Science majors.
(b) Math majors.
(c) Music majors.
(d) Humanities majors.

4. What did Sarah Killingsworth believe the war offered to her and her family?
(a) A path for acceptance in the white world.
(b) Jobs that paid well.
(c) Training.
(d) Education.

5. What did the German soldiers want from the captured Americans that the Americans destroyed?
(a) Their .45 pistols.
(b) Their ammunition.
(c) Their mortars.
(d) Their machine guns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a PAF?

2. What does the classification 4E mean to a soldier?

3. Why does Jack Short think the GI bill might have been detrimental in the long run?

4. What was a victory girl?

5. After the war, how did the community in Long Beach change, according to Sheril Cunning?

(see the answer key)

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